WASP-97 is 493 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G5 star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-97 b goes round its star every 2.07 days, 42 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | G5 |
| Surface temperature | 5,640 K |
| Mass | 1.18 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.08 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 1.179 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.57 |
| Age | about 4.8 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 492.7 light-years (151.1 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 24.6051°, Dec -55.7720° |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-97 b | 2.07 days | 0.0330 AU | 12.778 R⊕ | 432.25 M⊕ | Transit, 2014 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 5,640 K, 1.2 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.04 to 1.84 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 493 years ago, around 1530.